Critical Reading Instruction In The Senior Secondary English Textbooks

irra chrisyanti dewi; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d.; silih warni, ph.d.;

The purpose of this research is to examine three English textbooks. and This study aims to find out whether the three English textbooks for the 2013 curriculum were made for high schools and whether these books have standards so that students can become critical readers, for example official English textbooks issued by government publishers, meet the criteria for developing critical reading skills.
Therefore, the results of this study indicate that English textbooks for class X, English for class XI and English for class XII use a critical reading strategy, although there are still many textbooks that can be studied, the researcher chooses books from the government to examine. and in this book, there are several texts that are widely used to monitor understanding.
The English Textbook for class X uses seven strategies of contextualizing, folklore texts, monitoring comprehension, solving vocabulary problems, interpreting texts and comparing and contrasting related readings. Meanwhile, English textbooks for class XI only use two critical reading strategies, namely contextualization and comprehension monitoring. In addition, the class XII English textbook uses 6 critical reading strategies, namely: vocabulary interpretation.